Re: Jammed minidisc, HHB Portadisc

["stoatwizard" stoatwizard]

I would have thought you could lever the metal shutter away and discard
it completely, along with the associated spring. You should still be
able to play the disc. I guess you could record a blank MD, remove the
shutter and try it in in a cheaper MD deck to test the principle
first...

The old 3.5 in floppy disks had the same sort of failure mode, and you
could ping the metal shutter off, read the disk just fine wihout to get
the data off, and then bin it. MD seems to have borrowed the same idea
for the shutter, I guess the design is of a similar vintage.